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Math Bowl Quiz: From CBRC Book - Mathematics and PNU LET Reviewer Mathematics
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Published his greatest mathematical work Ars Magna (methods of solution of cubic and quartic)
Girolamo Cardano
Niccolo Fontana
Scipio Del Ferro
Omar Khayyam
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He is known as the "Father of Computing" for his work on Difference Engine.
Charles Babbage
Roger Bacon
John Napier
Steve Jobs
3
Two major mathematical documents in Egyptian Mathematics.
Liber Abaci and Arithmetica
Veda
Rhind and Moscow Papyrus
Ars Magna and The Elements
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Famous author of the Elements which paved way in studying plane geometry.
Euclid
Pythagoras
Euler
Aristotle
5
Invented a type of coordinate geometry before Descartes.
Roger Bacon
George Boole
Georg Cantor
Nicole Oresme
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Developed method of indivisibles which became a factor in the development of integral calculus.
Christian Huygens
Blaise Pascal
Pierre de Fermat
Bonaventura Cavalieri
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Also known as Mesopotamian Mathematics.
Egyptian Math
Indian Math
Chinese Math
Babylonian Math
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Introduced the number "0" and wrote some very important works in Math and Astronomy.
Ptolemy
Fano
Brahmagupta
Al-Khwarizmi
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Known for his problem that composes of difficult math problems that cannot be solved.
Guillame De L'Hopital
Pappus
David Hilbert
Albert Einstein
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Devised the method of solving linear equations through determinants.
David Hilbert
Isaac Newton
Gabriel Cramer
Georg Cantor
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Known for a type of logarithm having a base 10, which is named after him.
Henry Briggs
Gabriel Cramer
Albert Einstein
John Napier
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Famous for his introduction of logarithms.
De Moivre
Aristotle
Henry Briggs
John Napier
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Often regarded as the first pure mathematician.
Thales
Plato
Pythagoras
Aristotle
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Known for his introduction of fractals.
Leonardo of Pisa
Benoit Mandelbrot
Rene Descartes
John Wallis
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Known for his theorem that x^n + y^n = z^n has no positive solutions.
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Pierre de Fermat
Evariste Galois
Neils Heinrik Abel
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Invented a new, non-Greek way of doing geometry, now called "projective" or "modern" geometry.
Gerard Desargues
Euclid
Nicole Oresme
Leonhard Euler
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Believed to be the first to discover zero and used it as a place holder.
Egyptian Math
Babylonian Math
Indian Math
Chinese Math
18
He proved the formula e^iπ + 1 = 0.
Leonhard Euler
Roger Bacon
Rene Descartes
Charles Babbage
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One of the earliest cities of the world and was built to carefully planned patterns.
Babylon
Mesopotamia
Mohenjo-Daro
Harappa
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Known for his special rule for limits of rational function and calculus rule named after him
Francois Viete
Joseph Lagrange
Guillame de L'Hopital
Collin Maclaurin
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Used hieroglyphics in their numeration system from around 3000 BC.
Egyptian Math
Indian Math
Babylonian Math
Chinese Math
22
Patented the first pendulum clock, worked on improving lenses.
Isaac Netwon
Abraham De Moivre
Christian Huygens
Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibnitz
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First man who introduced the radical sign.
Diophantus
Hipparchus
Christoff Rudolf
Al-Khwarizmi
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Invented the method of solving cubic equations by intersecting a parabola with circle.
Scipio Del Ferro
Niccolo Fontana
Girolamo Cardano
Omar Khayyam
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A German mathematician often cited as the "Father of Modern Analysis".
Georg Riemann
Nikolai Lobachevsky
Karl Weierstrass
Janos Bolyai
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Defined in ancient times as the "art of calculation".
Indian Math
Egyptian Math
Chinese Math
Babylonian Math
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He was honored by having the Cartesian Coordinate System.
Nicole Oresme
Bonaventura Cavalieri
Marin Mersenne
Rene Descartes
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Summed the integers from 1-100 at the age of 7
Albert Einstein
Evariste Galois
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Charles Babbage
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Inventor of protractor
Captain John Huddart
Thales of Miletus
Pythagoras
John Napier
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Famous for his studies in number theory and compositional algebra who was famous in octonions.
Srinivasa Ramanujan
Marin Mersenne
August Cauchy
Jacob Bernoulli
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Known for his application of geometry to optics, observations with lenses and mirrors.
Georg Cantor
Nicole Oresme
Roger Bacon
George Boole
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Arabic author used horizontal line between the dividend and divisor as we do today.
Srinivasa Ramanujan
Al-Khwarizmi
Al-Abdul
Al-Hassar
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Inventor of the slide rule and introduced the multiplication table.
Aristotle
William Oughtred
Plato
William Rowan Hamilton
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Created magic squares
Egyptian Math
Indian Math
Babylonian Math
Chinese Math
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Used vigesimal number system (base 20) using only three symbols: shell-like, dot, and line.
Africans
Incans
Mayans
Mesoamerican
